Re: kernel BUGs when removing largish files with the SLOB allocator

[David Howells]

Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Looking through all the users of kobjsize, it seems we always know
> what the type is (and it's usually a VMA). I instead propose we use
> ksize on objects we know to be SLAB/SLOB-allocated and add a new
> function (kpagesize?) to size other objects where nommu needs it.

It sounds like we'd need an op in the VMA to do the per-type size thing (the
VMA itself not the VMA ops table).

David
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